Ping Pong Parlour

Ping Pong Parlour

09 July, 2010
by: Spoonfed Arts Team

Ping pong - Spoonfed's new favourite sport, and most probably your's too.

During a long hard day telling everyone about all the wicked things going on in London, we at Spoonfed like nothing better than a bit of lunch-time sporting fun. Sometimes we play cricket, sometimes a bastardised version of football called Kicky-Catchy, and now, this week, we've started playing outdoor ping pong on some vandal-proof concrete tables recently installed by the local council. 

And it seems we're not the only ones who've caught the table tennis bug. This July something called the Ping Pong Parlour is popping up in an old ceramics shop just round the back of Carnaby Street. Combining ping pong (obviously) with a sociable café vibe and all manner of other fun events, activities and assorted goings on, the Ping Pong Parlour is bringing the joys of wiff waff to the masses.

Things are kicking off with a Ping Pong Quiz Show organised by the fun folks over at Stoke Newington International Airport and there's also a Ping Pong Party on Friday 16th July. These both involve beer, which is always a good thing.

The whole Ping Pong Parlour shebang is part of a wider project entitled Ping! which has seen ping pong tables spring up all over London – there's ones in Hoxton Square, the Natural History Museum, Soho Square and Tate Britain, among hundreds of others. Come to think of it, maybe it's Ping! who were responsible for the new Spoonfed lunch-time sport. Who knows...  

Ping Pong Parlour is at 7 Marshall Street W1F 7EH from 14th July to 14th August 2010.
For more info and tickets: www.pingpongparlour.co.uk

Spoonfed Arts Team